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retribuir — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • reciprocate verb To respond to an action or feeling with a similar one in return.

Senses

retribuir is used for these senses in English:

  • pay back (figuratively) To avenge, to exact revenge.
  • reciprocate (transitive) To give something else in response (where the "thing" may also be abstract, a feeling or action) To make a reciprocal gift.
  • retribute To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite.

reciprocate — full definition

  1. verb To respond to an action or feeling with a similar one in return.
  2. verb Of machinery, to move back and forth repeatedly, like a piston.

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